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How to Stream Warcraft III

Purpose: I thought that some of you might be curious as to how, and I personally would like to see more streams for Warcraft III, so I decided to share my knowledge.

Prerequisites:
You will need a good internet connection, good enough to stream and play without much lag. To stream without the video looking like crap during battles you will need base minimum 1024 kbps available for use for streaming (video and audio combined - 800 for video, 224 for audio, 800x600 res)

You will also need a decent computer, my personal specs are AND Tricore 3.0 processor, 4GB RAM, 64-bit windows.

To stream at an even better resolution you will need a better connection and a better computer.

Step 1. Register at justin.tv, download Adobe fme, and the config filehttp://www.justin.tv/p/fme
Any other services are generally crappy, I would especially avoid using livestream

Step 2. Audio - You'll need stereo mix to capture game sounds, which is a whole set of problems in and of itself. Google it and see. If you have it, good. If you don't, try to find a solution yourself. If you want to capture game sounds and your microphone, you'll either need basically any sound card and mix it yourself, or an audio repeating program (what I use, specifically Audio Repeater)

Step 3. Video. Unlike Starcraft II Warcraft III does not have a functional full screen (windowed) mode. The closest you can get is to open Warcraft III with a -windowed parameter, but then your mouse can slide off the window when you are trying to scroll. Therefore many typical video capture programs which may or may not be bagged with various streaming services won't work for Warcraft III. I use SCFH, a free Japanese program that does the job well (in normal full screen mode). Follow the instructions here on how to install and use it. http://koitsu.wordpress.com/2009/09/...-use-scfh-dsf/ The program interface also has an English version. Once you install it IIRC and just click the setting for English and you're set.

Step 4: Streaming
Open up FME, load the config file you downloaded, set video capture to SCFH, open SCFH and choose FME from the scroll down list. Make the audio channel stereo 44100 hz or higher if you have it available, and bit rate to 224. I would suggest turning Auto Adjust on the right side of the interface and choose degrade quality, so that if it comes down to it fme will not take priority over your game lag.

That's it. Make sure to view others' streams too so everybody can have fun.

Places to publish your stream:
play.gosugamers.com
here

I will edit and try to answer any other questions you guys might have.

Side note: Using scroll lock programs is one solution to streaming with all the typical services, but your gamma settings will not take effect if you do so.

You can stream in windowed mode for WC3 with or without making it full-screen just by using a simple mouse locker program.

I've attached one, basically all you have to do is run it and then right click on it's icon in the task-tray, select "Specify Window", click on WC3, then whenever you want to lock the mouse to WC3 hit the hotkey (Default F7) and when you want to unlock it, F7 again.

So how does a player stream their zotac matches live? Like where do they go and whom do they contact to get all that setup so viewers can go to the wc3 section of zotac during the cup and see the stream link for player xx?

Only things that are problematic is when you want to run w3 in a different resolution than your monitor's native is or when you have a multi monitor setup (although the last one might be solved by additionally using a mouse capturer).